Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from United States and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Jimmy McGriff to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Ralphi Rosario,
Little Man,
Accadde A,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
June of 44,
Wolf Eyes,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Tremeloes,
Isaac Hayes,
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Massinfluence,
Ten City,
Bluetip,
The Happenings,
Rapeman,
Eve St. Jones,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jawbox,
The Victims,
Archie Shepp,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nils Olav,
Colin Newman,
Youth Brigade,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Fugs,
The Skatalites,
the Human League,
Joey Negro,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Morten Harket,
The Move,
Kayak,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
MDC,
Unrelated Segments,
Loose Ends,
The Saints,
Jacques Brel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Visage,
Eli Mardock,
Half Japanese,
Lakeside,
Audionom,
The Fire Engines,
Pharoah Sanders,
Y Pants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Khruangbin,
cv313,
Gang Starr,
Peter and Kerry,
Suicide,
The Barracudas,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gap Band,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.